BOY FOUND SHOT.
SUICIDE SUSPECTED. (press association iei.eqeah.) INVERCARGILL, November 11. The dteath occurred to-day in tragic circumstances of George Gough, agod 13 years. At 5 p.m. his mother heard a shot in front of the house and on going to investigate found the boy in the front bedroom dead with a shot-gun beside him. The caso is doubly tragic from tho fact that three months ago the bov found his baby brother lying dead in a perambulator, apparently from suffocation. He had been depressed since. The police, after investigation, stated that appearances pointed to the boy having shot himself.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 24
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100BOY FOUND SHOT. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 24
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